Sentences with phrase «as a magnet school»

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

They argue that a case built to help black and Latino students from Hartford has also empowered white privilege, as magnet schools covet families that are not black or Latino to meet integration quotas.

A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and added more programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other programs (such as some magnet schools).

In subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school setting.

A small number (102) of schools are identified as both magnet schools and charter schools in the Common Core of Data.

The academies would operate as magnet schools within the districts, alternatives to — but not replacements for — coed programs.

We treat these as magnet schools in all analyses.

Neighborhood schools in these zones that are disproportionately low - income would be reformed as magnet schools with attractive educational programs and themes to appeal to more middle - income families.

All awardees must be members of Magnet Schools of America and have served as a magnet school teacher for a minimum of three years.

There are also resources on school integration policies and trends, as well as magnet school best practices.

In some cases, charters are run as magnet schools by universities and colleges.

All awardees are members of Magnet Schools of America and have served as a magnet school teacher for a minimum of three years.

As a magnet school, it has a mission to provide LBJ graduates the ability to pursue all desired post secondary experiences.

Select - admission public schools, such as magnet schools or international baccalaureate schools, are another form of school choice.

School leaders at Bishop Woods Architecture and Design Magnet School say the way students learn in the school's second year as a magnet school is through hands - on, project - based instruction - or by seeing and by doing.

«As a magnet school,» said Science Leadership Academy principal Chris Lehmann, «we need to be able to prove that the learning we engage in here shows up on the test... without falling into a teach - for - the - test problem.

As a magnet school, it has selective admissions and attracts students from a wider range of socioeconomic backgrounds (fewer than half its students receive free or reduced - price lunch, for example) than the city's other project - based learning schools.

As a magnet school, they had a self - selected population, which contributed to their impressive outcomes.

School choice program is defined in the question as a magnet school, charter school, or school voucher program.

As a magnet school teacher, I have had the opportunity to create innovative programs to engage students and to grow as an educator, which is directly related to the endless possibilities magnet programs provide.

Not exact matches

«We think of the educational choice movement as involving many parts: vouchers and tax credits, certainly, but also virtual schools, magnet schools, homeschooling, and charter schools,» she said in a 2013 interview.

As you can see in the photo below, a teddy bear, Rutgers magnets and paper packet were spread across the 50 - yard line of the football field of the high school.

Along with the goodies offered by my fellow panelists, I'll be giving away a bunch of cool Lunch Tray magnets (featuring a tiny reproduction of a vintage school lunch poster) as well as two vintage lunch trays.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

The plan proposes new spending cuts in programs such as Care4Kids, magnet schools, and reducing municipal aid for the Elderly Circuit Breaker program.

In mid-October, during a meeting inside the magnet school with the waterfall, city school officials unveiled proposals for school closures as soon as next summer.

Foley's education plan includes policies such as school choice within a district and «money follows the child» - a program where students who attend magnet or charter schools bring the education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

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The death of the king leaves Shrek as the reluctant heir to the throne, and the ogre sails off to find a replacement in the person of Artie, a prep - school bully magnet with the voice of Justin Timberlake.

«First - generation» choice programs such as open enrollment, magnet and charter schools, and voucher plans have indeed increased the number of schooling options available.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SummerSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

Using the theme as a base, the magnet school seeks to enhance it by building family and community partnerships.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

This K - 5 magnet school in Jacksonville, Florida, uses what staffers refer to as the «eight kinds of smart» in all its practices.

Others spend as much as 45 minutes on a bus to reach the school — a math, science, and technology magnet.

As a teacher in an environmental stewardship magnet school, I saw just how interested students could be in worms crawling in a compost heap, and how kids can work together to make recycling a priority.

There is a large charter school literature than can inform the methods for this research, and there is some magnet literature as well.

As a result, almost all magnet schools during the study period began at the earliest start time.

Even students in the middle of the G&T distribution are likely to experience a loss of ranking in the magnet G&T schools as compared to their neighborhood schools.

This reflects the fact that magnet schools are very large on average — 798 students, as compared to 380 in charters.

Only three pieces published in that span with «magnet schools» in the title are cited over 100 times, as compared to at least 25 «charter schools» pieces.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

Only schools that listed STEM, STEAM, or Engineering were included in this count — there are also other magnets that have science - related themes, such as environmental science.

According to Liz Dunbar, teacher, Webmaster, and academic coordinator of technology at the humanities magnet high school, «At Baltimore City College, as at every other [Maryland] high school, students must earn service - learning hours to graduate.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

He joined the Chicago Public School system in 1998, as a deputy chief of staff to CEO Paul Vallas, where one of his jobs was supervising the creation of magnet programs in troubled schools.

The Advanced Placement program at Sharpstown High School has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school's magnet leadership learning commSchool has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school's magnet leadership learning commschool's magnet leadership learning community.

Even McCarver in Tacoma removed «magnet» from its name in 1998 and, as a result of No Child Left Behind, became a School in Need of Improvement.

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.